The decomposed body of a man was discovered in the ceiling of a hospital in Durban on Friday. The gruesome discovery was made by members of Search and Rescue, the Durban K9 unit and police officials who were called out to the trauma unit of the Mahatma Gandhi hospital in Phoenix, south of Durban. Police..
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Gruesome discovery as man’s decomposed body found in ceiling at Mahatma Gandhi hospital, Durban hospital after cleaners and nurses were troubled by a strong stench from the linen room
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Gauteng Health MEC Dismisses Claims Of Essential Medicine Shortages At Hospitals after patients reported a lack of essential drugs at government institutions
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Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa on Friday dismissed claims that all hospitals in the province didn’t have diabetes and cancer treatment available. This after the Democratic Alliance (DA) said it had noted with concern the shortage of essential drugs at government hospitals in the province. The party made claims that medication for cancer patients had..
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WATCH | Eastern Cape hospital overrun by food-snatching cats
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An extraordinary government decision to use cats at a number of Eastern Cape hospitals to do battle with rats has hit a snag. Patients in a rural hospital have complained about a battle of their own, trying to defend the food on their plates from a rag-tag army of stray cats who are not taking..
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Healthcare in SA appalling – Elderly patients forced to wait 5 days for treatment at Durban hospital
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You sit on a hard chair or lie on a thin gurney for five days, then you’re told to pack your things and go because the machine is broken and no treatment is available. That was the fate of a pensioner at Durban’s Addington Hospital who arrived for treatment on Monday and by lunchtime on..
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Pretoria Mediese Kernenergie Eenheid binne enkele maande vir tweede maal gesluit, kos SA miljoene Rand per dag
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Die sluiting van Pretoria Mediese Kernenergie Eenheid is sedert Februarie buite werking, wat beteken dat die verlies aan verkope reeds die R300 miljoen merk verby is. Die Eenheid is binne enkele maande vir ’n tweede keer gesluit, en kos die land miljoene Rand per dag. Dit is die derde keer dat die eenheid die afgelope..
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Enorme tekort aan verpleegpersoneel in SA – impak daarvan op goeie gesondheidsorg vir miljoene Suid-Afrikaners is byna ondenkbaar
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Die Solidariteit Beroepsgilde vir Gesondheidspraktisyns het vandag tydens ʼn konferensie gesê dat indien daar nie dringend ingegryp word en oplossings gevind word vir die enorme tekort aan verpleegpersoneel nie, staar ons ʼn moontlike nasionale gesondheidskrises in die oё. “Een van die grootste uitdagings in die verpleegbedryf in Suid-Afrika is die tekort aan verpleegpersoneel. Daar is..
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Failing health system in spotlight ahead of vote – psychiatric patients tied to bed in emergency ward of SA’s biggest hospital – is this the guaranteed basic treatment that ANC-regime promised South Africans when it came to power in 1994?
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Six psychiatric patients are tied to their beds in two tiny, dimly lit cubicles in the emergency ward of South Africa’s biggest hospital, where the country’s dire healthcare crisis is starkly evident. Some of the group are restrained using just medical bandages, while one screaming female patient is tied to a bed that is itself..
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Skokkende statistieke oor verpleegsters se swak werkomstandighede in Suid-Afrika
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Daar is tans vele uitdagings en probleme wat die verpleegprofessie in die gesig staar. Verpleegkundiges in Suid-Afrika gaan gebuk onder onveilige werkomstandighede, uitbranding en gebrekkige hulpbronne in die werkplek. Suid-Afrika het altesaam 3 816 openbare gesondheidsorginstellings. Die Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC) het vir die tydperk 2016-2017 inspeksies by 969 (25%) gesondheidsorginstansies regoor SA..
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At the end of white-minority rule SA’s Health System under management of ANC-regime is failing and in spotlight ahead of election
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Voting this year will mark 25 years since the end of apartheid rule, but hopes have been dashed that the new era would produce a modern, accessible public health service. Six psychiatric patients are tied to their beds in two tiny, dimly lit cubicles in the emergency ward of South Africa’s biggest hospital, where the..
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Backyard abortion services – Male nurse faces criminal charges after allegedly trying his hand at being a doctor, botching an abortion at home
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The nurse was allegedly using his long weekend to try his hand at being a doctor, with unfortunate consequences. In a statement on Tuesday, the Gauteng health department said the Far East Rand Hospital in Springs had laid criminal charges against one of its nurses after he allegedly illegally performed a termination of pregnancy at..
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